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October 28, 2025

THE MILITARIZATION OF OUTER SPACE: LEGAL, ETHICAL AND STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS OF COMMERCIAL INTERESTS Harrison Mellor As governments grow increasingly dependent on commercial space systems for military advantage, private companies are...

October 27, 2025

This week, Tech Policy Institute Director Sarah Kreps and Executive Director James Patton Rogers published their latest book Drones: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press) which provides a comprehensive and updated look at...

October 27, 2025

Cornell has named President Guðni Th. Jóhannesson of Iceland as 2026 Messenger Lecturer. The Messenger Lectures are the highest recognition of scholarship awarded by the University. For close to 100 years, they have brought to campus an...

October 21, 2025

Health Affairs Forefront. In a new survey of leading health care policy scholars conducted by the Cornell Health Policy Center, more than three quarters of respondents felt that the Medicaid work requirements introduced by the One Big...

October 20, 2025

The Tech Policy Institute’s newest practitioner brief, “Dark Skies: Criminal Drone Operations Targeting Prisons,” by Jack Venables, documents how organized crime is exploiting off-the-shelf drones to smuggle contraband, disrupt...

October 16, 2025

Meet Holten Moreno & Anna Peters, Wolpe Center Staff, Cornell in Washington Located at the Brooks School’s Wolpe Center near Dupont Circle, Cornell in Washington gives students the chance to study, live, and work in the heart of the...

October 15, 2025

This summer, Smith turned his lifelong passion into purpose through a new internship program jointly offered by the Cornell Brooks School of Public Policy and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Under the guidance of Brooks School professor...

October 14, 2025

Cecilia L. Ridgeway, M.S. ’69, Ph.D. ’72, Stanford University’s Lucie Stern Professor of Social Sciences, Emerita, will deliver the annual Alice Cook–Lois Gray Distinguished Lecture on Oct....

October 13, 2025

Barbara Batycka MPA ’25 Growing up in Poland, political participation was always a part of daily life for Barbara Batycka, who came to the Brooks School to pursue a Master of Public Administration (MPA). Her interest in traveling and...

October 8, 2025

On October 2, the Cornell Tech Policy Institute (TPI) hosted an engaging and wide-ranging conversation with Professor Michael Brenes, Co-Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and Lecturer in History at Yale University,...